Pricing trends for Cloud Hosting: 22 tracked pricing changes across 61 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Cloud Hosting Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

61
Vendors
5%
of All Tracked Changes
4
At-Risk Vendors
restructured 8 deprecated 5 reduced 3 model change 2 rebranded 1 increased 1 new 1 removed 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

deprecated AWS effective 2026-09-30 medium
AWS App Mesh reaches end of support on 2026-09-30. AWS: "After September 30, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the AWS App Mesh console or AWS App Mesh resources." AWS points App Mesh users to Amazon ECS Service Connect. Source ↗
reduced Deno Deploy discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
Deno Deploy cut its Free plan's CPU time from 15 to 10 hours a month, memory time from 350 GB-hours to 150 GiB-hours, custom domains from 50 to 5, apps from 20 to 10 and team members from 5 to 3; 60 deployments an hour became 15 builds an hour, one at a time. KV read units went up from 450,000 to 1,000,000 a month and write units from 300,000 to 500,000. The pricing page changed between a Common Crawl capture of 2026-08-07 and our read on 2026-08-28. Source ↗
rebranded flightcontrol.dev discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
Flightcontrol has been rebranded to Ravion. The free tier still exists, but has specific limits: 1 user, up to 50 modules, and 2,000 pipeline minutes. Source ↗
model change PandaStack discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The free tier now includes a $5.40/mo usage credit instead of a fixed amount of bandwidth and build minutes. Source ↗
deprecated AWS effective 2026-06-30 medium
Fargate platform version 1.3.0 reached end of support on June 30, 2026. AWS blocked new tasks and services on it from June 15 and said it would terminate the tasks still running on it on June 30. Platform version 1.4.0 replaces it. Source ↗
restructured Hetzner effective 2026-06-15 high
From 2026-06-15, for new orders and rescales, Hetzner's EU cloud prices excluding IPv4 rose 30-38% on Cost-Optimized CX/CAX, 144-175% on Regular Performance CPX (shared resources) and 113-173% on General Purpose CCX (dedicated vCPUs). Existing contracts kept their terms. Source ↗
deprecated AWS effective 2026-04-30 high
AWS App Runner closed to new customers. Service enters maintenance mode with no new features. AWS recommends migrating to Amazon ECS Express Mode for simplified container deployment. Source ↗
deprecated AWS effective 2026-04-30 high
The Node.js 20 Lambda runtime (nodejs20.x) was deprecated on 2026-04-30. Lambda blocks creating functions on it from 2027-02-01 and updating them from 2027-03-03; AWS's runtime page says "you can continue to invoke your functions indefinitely". Source ↗
restructured Render effective 2026-04-23 high
Render replaced its workspace plans. Bandwidth for the Hobby tier went from 100 GB to 5 GB included per month, then $0.15 per GB, and Hobby workspaces are now capped at 25 services. New workspaces got the new plans on 2026-04-23 and existing workspaces moved on 2026-08-01. Free web services, Postgres and Key Value kept their specs, and free web services draw on the workspace's included bandwidth. Source ↗
deprecated AWS effective 2026-04-20 low
AWS WorkSpaces Thin Client end of availability. AWS stopping sales of Thin Client devices. Existing devices continue working but no new hardware can be purchased. Source ↗
model change Netlify effective 2026-04-14 medium
Netlify changed its credit rates: bandwidth went from 10 to 20 credits per GB and compute from 5 to 10 credits per GB-hour, while web requests went from 3 to 2 credits per 10,000. The Free plan keeps 300 credits a month, so each credit buys half as much bandwidth and compute. Source ↗
increased Netlify effective 2026-04-14 medium
Form submissions are now free across all Credit plans (including the Credit Free tier) — previously each form submission cost 1 credit. Credit Pro also gained unlimited team seats (was $20/seat per Git contributor), which effectively removes the prior CMS/Identity 'every committer becomes a $19 Pro seat' gotcha for free-tier users who ever upgrade. Source ↗
reduced Deno Deploy effective 2026-04-12 medium
Egress on the Free plan fell from 100 GB to 20 GB a month. Deno Deploy's pricing page changed between Common Crawl captures of 2026-03-15 and 2026-04-12. Source ↗
restructured Hetzner effective 2026-04-01 high
Cloud & dedicated server prices increasing 30-50%. Entry-level CX23: €2.99→€3.99/mo (+33%). Applies to new and existing customers. Driven by DRAM (+171% YoY) and NVMe SSD cost surges from AI infrastructure demand. Superseded 2026-06-15: Hetzner ran a second adjustment across all cloud and dedicated lines, applying to new orders and rescales only. Read from hetzner.com on 2026-09-03: CX23 is €5.99 and is marked "not available", as is every other Cost-Optimized plan, and the cheapest orderable plan is CPX12 at €11.99/mo. Source ↗
restructured Vercel effective 2026-02-01 medium
New Pro projects now default to Turbo build machines (30 vCPUs, 60GB memory) at $0.126/minute — 9x more expensive than Standard machines ($0.014/min). Pro plan still $20/seat/month with $20 usage credit, but real-world build costs for moderate teams can hit $400+/month. Standard machines still available but must be manually selected. Source ↗
restructured PythonAnywhere effective 2026-01-15 medium
$5 Hacker tier eliminated, features merged into free and higher tiers Source ↗
restructured Fly.io effective 2026-01-01 medium
Volume snapshots now billed — previously free automatic snapshots now cost $0.08/GB-month Source ↗
restructured Vercel effective 2026-01-01 medium
Pro plan moved to credit-based model ($20/mo credit pool), Hobby plan metrics renamed and restructured — bandwidth→Fast Data Transfer, serverless split into Active CPU + Provisioned Memory, Blob Storage and Image Transformations added Source ↗
restructured Netlify effective 2025-09-04 medium
Restructured to credit-based pricing; sites pause on credit exhaustion Source ↗
new Railway effective 2025-09-03 medium
Railway added a Free plan: after the 30-day trial, $1 of free credit a month. It first appears in the Internet Archive's 2025-09-03 capture; the 2025-08-24 capture has no Free plan. Source ↗
reduced Railway effective 2025-06-30 medium
Railway's trial credit now expires. The one-time $5 grant, which previously did not expire, lasts 30 days. The Internet Archive's 2025-06-26 capture still says the credits do not expire; the 2025-06-30 capture says they expire in 30 days. Source ↗
removed Heroku effective 2022-11-28 high
Heroku stopped offering free dynos, hobby-dev Heroku Postgres and hobby-dev Heroku Data for Redis on 2022-11-28, as announced on 2022-08-25. Source ↗

We hold 17 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

At-Risk Vendors

All 4 of the 61 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 21 of the 61 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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